The following documents represent a 2 year Facilities plan
encompassing projects funded by Educational and General, Auxiliaries and
Capital Appropriations. This plan is
prepared by Facilities and represents the needs of the University as determined
from customer requests, direction from the Facilities Advisory Committee, and
the Building Condition report to SSHE and the age of the equipment and
infrastructure with respect to life cycle.
Also represented is a small projects list, comprised of
projects less than $10,000 in value, which are determined from customer
requests. Priority has been determined
in consultation with the Facilities Advisory Committee and funded according to
need and availability of funds.
The capital projects shown are subject to the capital
budgeting and approval process. These
projects are submitted to the Board of Governors for SSHE in August of each
year. At that time the current years
request is shown, which represents current needs. In addition, 4 planning years of projects are
submitted for information only. The BOG
reviews and prioritizes the capital requests from all 14 state
universities. These projects are in turn
submitted to the legislature for approval in the form of a capital bill. If approved by the legislature and the
Governor, the projects remain as approved for funding for a period of 5
years. If they are not funded by the
Governor’s office in that time period, they project authorization expires and
they must be resubmitted to the BOG to again go through the capital budgeting
cycle.
Release of funds for approved projects has been scheduled by
SSHE with the Governor’s office on a 5 year plan basis. The current 5 year plan is ending and a new
one has not been formulated or approved.
Consequently the future schedule for release of funds for approved
capital projects is unknown at this time.
The University would like to acknowledge the work of the
2002/2003 Facilities Advisory Committee in aiding the establishment of
priorities and preparation of this plan.
The committee charges are contained in Appendix B. The committee participants are: Prof. Phillip Huber, Dr. James Wheeler, Dr. Kunio Mitsuma, Dr. Punnipa Hossain, Dr. Susan Strayer, Mr. Peter Campbell, Mr. Rey
Junco, Mrs. Carol Gehret, Ms. Dawn Datt, and Col. St. Andre.